Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 2] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.

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Title: Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 2] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
Author: Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Publication: [At London :: Imprinted by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martins],; An. 1583. Mens. Octobr.
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6. Isabell Foster Martyr.

WIth these fiue persons aboue recited and condem∣ned, were also two women in the foresayd compa∣ny condemned the same tyme,* 1.1 and likewise burned for the same cause, the one a wife called Isabell Foster, the o∣ther a mayde named Ioane Warne, or otherwise Lash∣ford.

This foresayd Isabell was borne in Grafestocke in the Dioces of Carlill, and afterward maried to one Iohn Foster Cutler, of the Parish of S. Brides in Fleetstreete, beyng of the age of Lv. yeares.* 1.2 She likewise for not com∣myng vnto the Churche, beyng sent vnto Boner, and so imprisoned, was sundry tymes examined by the sayd By∣shop, but neuer ouercome, nor remoued from the con∣stant confession of Christes Gospell.

At length commyng vnto her finall examination be∣fore the Byshop in the Consistory the xv. day of the sayd moneth of Ianuary, she was moued agayne, whether she would yet goe from her former aunsweres. Where∣unto she gaue a resolute aunswere in few wordes: I will not (sayth she) goe from them by Gods grace: and there∣unto did adhere, neither beyng cast downe by the mana∣cyng threates of the Byshop, nor yet yeldyng thorough his alluryng enticementes,* 1.3 promising both lyfe and liber∣tie if she would associate her selfe in the vnitie of the Ca∣tholicke Churche. Whereunto she sayd agayne in this wise, that she trusted she was neuer out of the Catholicke Church. &c. and so persisting in the same, continued con∣staunt, till the sentence diffinitiue was pronounced, and thē she was committed by commaundemēt of the Byshop to the secular power, and so brought a fewe dayes after to the stake, the 27. day of the foresayd moneth:* 1.4 where she like a faythfull witnesse of the Lordes truth (with the o∣ther fiue aforesayd) ended her troubles here, to finde a bet∣ter rest in the kyngdome of Christ our Sauiour.

Notes

* 1.1

Isabel Fo∣ster, Martyr. Ianuary. 27.

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* 1.2

Isabell Fo∣ster constāt in confes∣sing Chri∣stes Gos∣pell.

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* 1.3

The wordes of Isabell Foster of her last ex∣amination▪

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* 1.4

Isabell Fo∣ster con∣demned.

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